scholarly journals Department of Cultural Studies, Religious Studies and Theology, Chernivtsi National University: Where Are You Going

Idei ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 106-113
Author(s):  
Микола Шкрібляк
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
National University ◽  
Historical Retrospect

The author of the article presents the Department of Cultural Studies, Religious Studies and Theology of Chernivtsi National University in historical retrospect and perspective.

Ms. Marvel's America

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
General Reader ◽  
Immigration History ◽  
Cultural Frameworks ◽  
Community Pedagogy

This book is a scholarly examination of the comic book character of the new Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, from multiple disciplinary approaches, including religious studies, gender studies, cultural studies, communication, and pedagogy. The essays cover topics from fashion, immigration history, technoculture, and fandom and are intended for a broad range of general and academic readers, from comics fans to comics scholars. The book’s four main sections—“Precursors,” “Nation and Religion, Identity and Community,” “Pedagogy and Resistance,” and “Fangirls, Fanboys, and the Culture of Fandom”—apply specific theoretical and cultural frameworks to their examination of the character. The book closes with a one-page comic by comics scholar and artist Jose Alaniz, as well as an exclusive interview with author G. Willow Wilson by gender studies scholar Shabana Mir. The editors’ wide-ranging expertise, from comics and religious studies to literature, gender, and popular culture, inform and shape this volume suitable for both undergraduate and graduate classrooms, as well as the general reader.

“Food (Not) from a Truck”

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Benjamin E. Zeller
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Cultural Study ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Food Studies ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Active Learning Strategies ◽  
Nutritional Studies

Abstract This article charts the major concepts, theoretical and methodological models, and approaches used by teachers and scholars of religion and food, with a focus on how such concepts may be embedded within courses on religion and nature. The article first introduces central topics such as foodways, the food cycle, and some key concepts within the cultural study of religion, nature, and food. Second, it notes how the study of religion, nature, and food requires drawing from the tools of food studies, religious studies, diet/nutritional studies, and cultural studies, among others. Finally, the article offers some best practices in terms of how to teach the topic, focusing on active learning strategies. The article proposes that because everyone eats, the topic of religion, nature, and food is a unique way to engage students, helping them think critically about an otherwise unexamined but pervasive aspect of life.

What is Esotericism? Cultural Studies Approaches and the Problems of Definition in Religious Studies

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bergunder
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Specific Research ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

AbstractThere is an ongoing debate whether esotericism could be a meaningful subject for Religious Studies. The recent history of the academic research into esotericism will be presented and critically discussed, how it has tried to define its subject and how this discussions have reached an impasse. It is proposed that certain theoretical perspectives from cultural studies offer alternative ways in determining a research subject, especially one based on Ernesto Laclau’s concept of “empty signifiers.” This argument will be followed by a methodological application that translates the theoretical considerations into a concrete and specific research design of discursive networks.

scholarly journals Toward a Juris-cultural Studies of Human Rights

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (SI) ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
John Nguyet Erni
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
New Media ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Cultural Critique ◽  
Unified Framework ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
National University

This special issue grew out of an advanced seminar on Cultural Studies that I guest-taught at the National University of Singapore in 2018, where there has been a long-time engagement with interdisciplinary teaching and learning in the field of Cultural Studies through NUS’s Asian Research Institute (and more recently through the university’s Department of Communication and New Media). The essays collected here represent a collection of sincere efforts to reframe political and ethical crises through a unified framework that can be called juris-cultural studies of law and rights. By “juris-cultural,” I refer to a genre of critical cultural analysis that investigates the mutually constitutive nature of law and culture, through dissecting “law as culture” in which cultural signifying practices are traceable to the presence or absence of legal norms, as well as through “culture as law” in which the contested meanings of cultural communities, their practices and politics, can shape or even dictate social norms and regulations. It is both a political language and a method that avoids separating law and culture but confronts their uneasy entanglements. The essays are united by a common critical method of combining critical legal theory with a cultural critique of law. Each essay centers on a particular court case, and performs critical reading of the legal logics and reasoning alongside a broader attention to social and cultural ideologies and power relations that overdetermine the outcome of the court judgment. The insights produced by such a method will hopefully present to readers an innovative approach adequate to the task of bringing the problems of rights, legal subjectivities, and critical justice squarely to the doorsteps of Cultural Studies.

scholarly journals Orthodox Issues in the Research Achievements of Ukrainian Religious Scientists

2006 ◽  
pp. 145-161
Author(s):  
Oleksandr N. Sagan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Historical Retrospect ◽  
The Subject

Among all religious studies that were actively researched during the Independence of Ukraine, intelligence in the field of Orthodoxy was and remains one of the most common. This is not surprising, because this denomination - both in historical retrospect and nowadays - remains dominant in Ukraine, which significantly expands the subject of research that is conducted not only in religious, but also in historical, political and other fields. Therefore, the volume of literature that deals with historical, theological, economic, political, social, psychological, cultural and other aspects of the functioning of Orthodoxy as a religious trend is extremely large and has dozens of monographs and hundreds of articles. Unfortunately, there are practically no asylum works on historiography on Orthodox-related publications in independent Ukraine. The only exception is the work of V. Ulyanovsky, which was published in the early 1990s, and is now somewhat outdated.

scholarly journals Гадание по нагару лампады

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1641-1651
Author(s):  
Bembya L. Mitruev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Chinese Text ◽  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Resource Center ◽  
Digital Resource ◽  
National University ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
Oil Lamp

Introduction. Oil lamp snuff divination practices used to be widespread enough in Tibet, Mongolia, Kalmykia, and other regions. Goals. The paper introduces into scientific discourse texts thereof in Chinese, Tibetan, and Mongolian. The analysis of the practices reveals values, logic, symbols, and structural patterns inherent to traditional societies. Materials. The article examines a number of sources, namely: 1) a Chinese text published in Hohhot (Inner Mongolia, PRC), 2) a Tibetan text posted on the website of Buddhist Digital Resource Center, 3) a Beijing xylograph of one Mongolian text stored at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the RAS (St. Petersburg, Russia). The latter was checked against another copy of the Beijing xylograph submitted by Demberel Sükhee, a lecturer at the National University of Mongolia (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies). Results. The article analyzes the traditional oil lamp snuff divination method and provides a comparative study of texts in three different languages, translating and transliterating the employed sources.

scholarly journals Religious studies on the pages of the scientific journal "Mandrivets" (2005-2013)

2014 ◽  
pp. 29-33
Author(s):  
Fedir Polyanskyy
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
Professional Journals ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
National University

Religious studies, as a complex of academic academic disciplines, studying the social nature of religion - its history, development and place in culture and society, is being created today. Religious knowledge is formed, the controversy of reports at conferences, in the pages of monographs and professional journals takes place. An all-Ukrainian scientific journal Mandrivets, a joint project of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and the Mandrivets publishing house, is included in the list of scientific specialties in philology, history, philosophy, in this context.

scholarly journals Ni kaczka, ni bóbr, czyli słów kilka o dziobaku w symbolice i wierzeniach Aborygenów

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-108
Author(s):  
Dawid R. Wesołowski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Australian Aborigines ◽  
Monographic Study ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Characteristic Features

Since ancient times, people have been fascinated by animals. They are such a close element of the biosphere, that it is not possible for them to go unnoticed. Treating animals as sacred beings is one of the primary elements of totemism – belief in kinship with the class of objects (in this case animals). It is clearly visible in the culture of Australian aborigines. The paper presents, through the scope of mystic relation aborigines-animals, the role of platypus in the culture of indigenous inhabitants of Australia. It is also an attempt to fill the gap in the humanist discourse about animals because to this day platypus haven’t had any monographic study in the field of religious studies, cultural studies or even animal studies. By analyzing the stories from the Dreamtime, the text shows the mythical genesis of this mammal, the origin of its characteristic features, and it functions in the life of a tribe, especially in the light of aquatic symbolism.

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